A glance at the provided two bar charts reveals information about the average time people in New Zealand spend daily on two common leisure activities: reading and listening to music for pleasure.
Overall, the chart is categorized by various age groups and it is evident that older individuals tend to spend more time on both activities compared to theirs younger counterparts. In addition, proportion of people who read a book on a daily basis increases gradually when the time passes.
Regarding reading books, teenagers spend 20 minutes of their time for this activity and it grows nearly double when they are 25-32 years old. People with around 33-42 age bracket remains relatively stable, showing slight growth, with just under 40 minutes. On the other hand, the exponential growth is observed at those 56-65+ age bracket, at a peak of over an 1 hour, showing the highest figure of these ages.
When it comes to listening to music, it increases exponentially during adulthood (14-24) and old age (56-65+), with approximately 1 hour 20 minutes at both ages. Over time figures start declining and fall to 70 minutes per day at the age of 25- 32. People experience increases when they get older from 43 to 65+, before declining to 45 minutes at the age of 33-42 on a daily basis.